Tag: Biography

Review: The Wrong Knickers by Bryony Gordon

Posted October 8, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: The Wrong Knickers by Bryony Gordon

I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The Wrong Knickers by Bryony Gordon Published by Headline on June 5, 2014 Genres: Non-Fiction Pages: 320 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads Bryony Gordon survived her adolescence by dreaming about the life she’d have in her twenties: the perfect job; the lovely flat; the amazing boyfriend. The reality was something of a shock. Her Telegraph column was a diary of her daily screw-ups; she lived in a series of squalid shoe boxes; and her most meaningful relationship of the entire decade was with a Marlboro Light. Here in the Sunday Times bestselling THE WRONG KNICKERS Bryony busts open the glamorized myth of what it means to be a young (perpetually) single girl about London town, and shares the horrible and hilarious truth. The truth about picking up a colleague at the STI clinic; sinking into debt to fund a varied diet of wine, crisps and vodka; and how it […]

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Review: 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

Posted February 13, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup on January 1st 1970 Genres: Biography, Historical, Non-Fiction Format: E-Book Source: Own Copy Buy on Amazon Goodreads A film tie-in edition of this eloquent and powerful memoir, to accompany the major new film starring Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation. I decided to read 12 Years a Slave before I saw the film, and I managed to read the whole book in one sitting on a train ride home. How can a book like this have disappeared from bookshelves? I am thankful to the film for bringing this story back from obscurity. Twelve Years a Slave conveys […]

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